ABSTRACT

This commentary highlights that some of the remaining discrepancies in the attentional-capture debate can be resolved by a simple assumption: observers do not use the priority map when this map is useless to solve the task. Rather, whenever search targets are known to be non-salient, observers resort to a previously postulated alternative search strategy for which (distractor) saliency signals are irrelevant. Equipped with this assumption, we trace thus-far unaccounted-for discrepancies between empirical studies on attentional capture back to specific design choices that affect relative target saliency (display density and non-target heterogeneity).

摘要

这篇评论强调了注意力捕获辩论中的一些剩余差异可以通过一个简单的假设来解决：当优先级地图无法解决任务时，观察者不会使用优先级地图。相反，每当已知搜索目标不显着时，观察者就会求助于先前假设的替代搜索策略，（干扰器）显着性信号与之无关。有了这个假设，我们将注意力捕获的经验研究之间迄今为止尚未解释的差异追溯到影响相对目标显着性（显示密度和非目标异质性）的特定设计选择。